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Colorado Activists Took on Uranium Giant and Won - For Now at Least

FORT COLLINS — When Canadian-based Powertech decided to explore a vast bed of buried uranium near the tiny Weld County town of Nunn in 2007, it expected to revive an industry key to refueling nuclear power in America.
It did not expect to stir a diverse and savvy group of locals who may have scuttled the company's designs for uranium exploration in northern Colorado for good.